Compact Fusion Building on more than 60 years of fusion research, engineers at the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works are developing a compact nuclear fusion reactor concept. It is based on using a high fraction of magnetic field pressure, which enables making devices only a tenth the size of previous concepts such as the ITER. This […]
A paper recently published in International Materials Reviews provides an insightful look at materials informatics and how it is being employed to overcome obstacles in computational materials engineering. “Data science and cyberinfrastructure: Critical enablers for accelerated development of hierarchical materials,” by Surya R. Kalidindi of the Georgia Institute of Technology, also identifies specific areas of research that offer the most promise based on the success of earlier work.
Researchers from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, have reportedly collaborated with researchers in China to produce polymer/carbon-nanotube composite fibers with lengths over 50 cm.
Materion Performance Alloys, a Materion Corporation business, Mayfield Heights, Ohio, is preparing to meet increased demand for high-strength copper alloy strip products following the recent announcement by Mitsubishi Electric Co. that it will stop production of its copper alloy business effective March 2015.
Ultra Tec, Santa Ana, Calif., reports that its Arc-lite antireflective (AR) coating system coats package, board, and wafer level devices very rapidly, generally in less than one minute.
